Institution: | Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, and MetroHealth Medical Center,
Columbus Children's Hospital
2All correspondence should be sent to Kenneth J. Tarnowski, Department of Pediatrics, Metro-Health Medical Center, 3395 Scranton Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44109 |
Abstract: | Examined the effects of pain symptom severity and patient diagnosticstatus on pediatric staffs' acceptability ratings of 6 interventionsused to treat pediatric pain. Results indicated that (a) extinctionwas significantly less acceptable than all other behavioraland pharmacologic interventions, (b) self-management was moreacceptable than all other interventions with the exception ofcontingency management, (c) accelerative procedures and self-managementinterventions were preferred to pharmacologic treatment, (d)patient diagnostic status and pain symptom severity failed tosignificantly influence treatment ratings, (e) self-managementwas the only intervention differentially rated as a functionof pain symptom severity, and (f) pharmacologic treatment wasdifferentially rated as a function of patient diagnostic status. |